STORIES AND ARTICLES:
SO YOU THINK YOU WANT TO BE A
FIREFIGHTER?
Think you've got what it takes but can't figure out
how to get hired on? Read this!
A MATTER OF DOLLARS AND SENSE
CL-415s in L.A. County -- the politics of aerial firefighting
FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt says we need to fight fire with fire --
by planning, thinning, dealing with the smoke, and using prescribed fire
and special Interagency RxFire Crews.
STORM FRONT IN FIRE WEATHER
Bureauspeak from the management at the National Weather Service isn't
clouding the issue for fire management agencies. They know a storm when
they see one.
BEAT THE HEAT!
Stay cool and stay safe -- how to avoid heat stroke on the fireline
FIRE SHELTER SURVIVAL
Do's and don'ts that could save your life
POISON OAK
The scourge of wildland firefighters and even non-firefighters
CROWN FIRE EXPERIMENTS
Using trees as fire shields -- test burns in Canada's Northwest
Territories
1998 GREAT BASIN WORKSHOP
This workshop in St. George, Utah focused on fire prevention in the
wildland/urban interface
AIR SHOW EXTRAORDINAIRE
The 1997 FireExpo at Abbotsford, British Columbia
VIKING FIREFIGHTERS
Smokedivers and rescue divers of the Oslo Brannvesen in Norway
MALHEUR RAPPEL CREW
These rappellers from Oregon figure they have the best job in the Forest
Service
JACK WARD THOMAS
An interview with the 13th Chief of the Forest Service -- lead story in
the premier issue of WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER Magazine.
CALIFORNIA ARSON STRING
Fall 1997 story from WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER Magazine, detailing the arson
string investigators were dealing with in California
WILDFIRE IN MEXICO, Summer 1998
South-of-the-border jungles, snakes, malaria, jaguars -- and FIRE!
PACIFIC ISLANDS SPRINGTIME
FIREFIGHTING
Hawaii and Guam battled fires on the islands in
April 1998
PBY CRASH IN
CALIFORNIA
PBY-5A nosedives into San Vicente Lake, August 1997
OBENAUF'S Leather
Preservative
Is this the best boot grease in the world??
THE SUPPLY CACHE
Firefighters supplying firefighters
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